Johnson County’s new team game experience: Dozens of rooms, food, self-serve beer wall

Overland Park’s new live-action gaming experience, Brkthrough, celebrated a ribbon cutting Thursday.

But the staff at Tuttle Family Dentistry didn’t stop to take in the moment.

They split into three teams — Bertheta, Triple Threat and Intimidators — and started racking up points in the game rooms. They had a choice of nearly 40 rooms offering physical, mental and/or skill-based challenges.

“It’s great. I’m not much of a game person but it has been a wonderful and challenging time,” said Tuttle employee Denise Ketelle.

She planned to come back with family and friends but stopped for a drink between plays.

Not her co-workers.

“We love this. We’re slightly competitive,” said one team member as she hurried into a game room and shut the door in her pursuit of more points.

The owners describe the entertainment center as “fast-paced, super fun and engaging.”

Teams can be two to four people. Each team receives a radio-frequency identification bracelet, which allows them to enter a room and keep track of their points (for a maximum 100). They spend three to five minutes in each room.

Then they can go for more rounds in that room to improve their score or head to a different room.

Game rooms include Joker (a game with playing cards), Logic (a quiz game), Prison Brk (an escape room), Hoops (with six basketball hoops) and Jungle (testing players’ knowledge of geography).

Customers can sign up for two hours of play at $29.99 per person or four hours at $39.99.

Players ages 13 and younger must have a parent or guardian with them at all times.

Scores for the day, the month and “all time” will be posted on a leaderboard. High scorers may win Brkthrough merchandise or gift cards for food and beverages in the Brk Room.

One room still under construction? The open-air Scurry (Rat Race), where contestants will scamper through a maze on all fours under a sign that says “Please don’t feed the lab animals.”

Brkthrough plans to change the theme of five rooms each year to keep the concept fresh.

Its Brk Room offers a variety of menu items including burgers, grilled chicken salad, Nashville hot wings, Thai chicken pizza and smothered tots.

It has a self-pour tap wall with 20 wines and beers, including Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Tank 7.

Brkthrough took 22,000-square-feet in the former Stein Mart building at 6403 W. 135th St., Suite E4, in Corbin Park. It can hold as many as 250 people.

Groups can rent private event spaces or the entire facility. The owners expect to book corporate events, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and family outings and celebrations.

Hours are currently 2 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and noon to 8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. It plans to expand those hours later this month.

‘Fast-paced, super fun’: Johnson County complex to have 40 game rooms, food and bar

The owners hope to add another area location and then expand to other cities.